The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113747   Message #2421219
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
24-Aug-08 - 12:04 PM
Thread Name: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Subject: RE: '5000 Morris Dancers'
Those who do know must become more militant

Not seeing much evidence of any sort of knowledge here, WAV - just more relentlessly ignorant trolling backed up by an equal measure of mindless bigotry. Any militancy in this context I would personally oppose with a whole hearted indignation, as would any other right thinking human being, Morris Dancers included. Morris Dancing, like much else of our so-called Folk Culture, is perpetuated by a particular minority of revivalists without whom it would have died the death long ago. Even those who do it would baulk at your England for the English claptrap, and see it for what it is, i.e. a wholesome & generous slab of good-hearted nostalgia that in no way represents Our Own Good Culture any more than does the other redundancies & anachronisms in your offensive exclusive & woefully inaccurate catalogues of Englishness. Enjoy it by all means, but fir God's sake keep it in perspective.